The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, offered a broad attack on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York today, describing her as a Democrat brimming with anger and a representative of the far-left wing of her party.
Mr. Mehlman disputed the suggestion that Mrs. Clinton had moved to the center of her party. And while he declined to say, in response to a question, if he thought Mrs. Clinton, a former first lady, would be the Republicans' "dream candidate or the Democrat you must dread," he left little doubt that Republicans had settled on new lines of attack on one of the party's leading contenders for the 2008 presidential nomination.
"I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates," he told George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" on ABC....
Mehlman and his party are hurting. They have many candidates with ties to Tom DeLay, Jack Abramoff, Scooter Libby, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom Noe, lobbyists, and scandals. Mehlman, has to go on the attack because they don't want people to discuss the Republican Party's lack of ethics.
The American people are angry at the Republicans. Republicans are cutting aid to college students, raising interest rates for college loans; cutting aid to single moms, the elderly, the sick, foster parents; scaling back conservation programs and environmental clean up operations; cutting research in agriculture; cutting medical research. This is all being done because they want to keep those tax cuts in place for the rich. The Republicans also want to keep the war going in Iraq. Republicans think that building roads in Iraq seems to be more important than helping Americans along the gulf coast.
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Raw Story has the headline from The Guardian: Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services
The British government will today publicly defy the United States by giving money for safe abortion services in developing countries to organisations that have been cut off from American funding.
Nearly 70,000 women and girls died last year because they went to back-street abortionists. Hundreds of thousands of others suffered serious injuries.
Critics of America's aid policy say some might have lived if the US had not withdrawn funding from clinics that provide safe services - or that simply tell women where to find them.
The "global gag" rule, as it has become known, was imposed by President George Bush in 2001. It requires any organisation applying for US funds to sign an undertaking not to counsel women on abortion - other than advising against it - or provide abortion services.
The UK will today become the founder donor of a fund set up specifically to attempt to replace the lost dollars and increase safe abortion services.....
Approximately 70,000 women and girls died because safe, clean, medically supervised abortion clinics were not discussed when the women needed help. These 70,000 women and girls suffered and died needlessly. This is just awful and it is this administration's fault.
